Comet-like tail seen flowing from Venus
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
PARIS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- An unmanned European spacecraft orbiting Venus has found the planet's ionosphere balloons out like a comet's tail on its night side, astronomers say.
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